 | Edward Verrall Lucas - 1906 - 442 ページ
...starvation is preferable to the dishonoured death which is the only alternative. Your menaces move me not ; my life is at your disposal ; here is my sword, plunge...but expect no surrender, so long as I remain alive.' " Leyden was at last relieved by William of Orange, who from his sick-bed had arranged for the piercing... | |
 | Henry Smith Williams - 1907 - 724 ページ
...together, in the flames, rather than suffer our homes to be polluted and our liberties to be crushed." " What would ye, my friends? Why do ye murmur that we...but expect no surrender, so long as I remain alive." A violent equinoctial gale, on the night of the 1st and 2nd of October, came storming from the northwest,... | |
 | Theodore L. Flood, Frank Chapin Bray - 1908 - 998 ページ
...starvation is preferable to the dishonored death which is the only alternative. Your menaces move me not ; my life is at your disposal ; here is my sword, plunge...words of the stout burgomaster inspired a new courage in the hearts of those who heard him, and a shout of applause and defiance arose from the famishing... | |
 | Georgia Alexander - 1909 - 392 ページ
...starvation is preferable to the dishonored death which is the only alternative. Your menaces move me not ; my life is at your disposal ; here is my sword, plunge...words of the stout burgomaster inspired a new courage in the hearts of those who heard him, and a shout of applause and defiance arose from the famishing... | |
 | John Lothrop Motley - 1909 - 520 ページ
...starvation is preferable to the dishonoured death which is the only alternative. Your menaces move me not ; my life is at your disposal : here is my sword, plunge...words of the stout burgomaster inspired a new courage in the hearts of those who heard him, and a shout of applause and defiance arose from the famishing... | |
 | Georgia Alexander, Grace Alexander - 1909 - 392 ページ
...preferable to the dishonored death which is the only alternative. Your menaces move me not ; my lif e is at your disposal ; here is my sword, plunge it...words of the stout burgomaster inspired a new courage in the hearts of those who heard him, and a shout of applause and defiance arose from the famishing... | |
 | Winnifred Cockshott - 1909 - 392 ページ
...said, " whether by your hands, the enemy's, or by the hand of God. . . . Your menaces move me not ; my life is at your disposal ; here is my sword, plunge...but expect no surrender so long as I remain alive." His courage put new heart into the defenders, and they hurled defiance at the Spaniards. "Ye call us... | |
 | Charles Émile Roche - 1910 - 258 ページ
...starvation is preferable to the dishonoured death which is the only alternative. Your menaces move me not. My life is at your disposal. Here is my sword ; plunge...your hunger, but expect no surrender so long as I am alive." William of Orange had enjoined upon the Leydeners to hold out for three months, as Holland's... | |
 | William Lewis Nida - 1912 - 418 ページ
...accused him of preferring to starve them rather than give up to the Spaniards. That hero replied : " Here is my sword, plunge it into my breast and divide my flesh among you to appease your hunger; but expect no surrender so long as I shall remain alive." This shamed the faint-hearted... | |
 | William Lewis Nida - 1912 - 418 ページ
...Spaniards. That hero replied : " Here is my sword, plunge it into my breast and divide my flesh among you to appease your hunger; but expect no surrender so long as I shall remain alive." This shamed the faint-hearted citizens to obedience, and there was no more flinching.... | |
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I know that we shall starve if not soon relieved ; but starvation is preferable to the dishonored death which is the only alternative. Your menaces move me not ; my life is at your disposal ; here is my sword, plunge it into my breast, and divide my flesh... 
